"In the years between the Revolutionary War and the drafting of the Constitution, American gentlemen ... the merchants, lawyers, planters, and landowners who comprised the independent republic's elite ... worked hard to maintain their positions of power. Gentlemen Revolutionarie…
"In the years between the Revolutionary War and the drafting of the Constitution, American gentlemen--the merchants, lawyers, planters, and landowners who comprised the independent republic's elite--worked hard to maintain their positions of power. Gentlemen Revolutionaries show…
"In the years between the Revolutionary War and the drafting of the Constitution, American gentlemen--the merchants, lawyers, planters, and landowners who comprised the independent republic's elite--worked hard to maintain their positions of power. Gentlemen Revolutionaries show…
This dissertation examines the rise of consumerism, and in particular, the development of the Egyptian woman as a housewife and consumer from 1863 to 1922. My focus is on middle to upper class urban women, mainly in Cairo and Alexandria. I examine the ways in which both the educ…
This thesis is case study of upper-class formation. It is a biography of Phoebe Apperson Hearst (1842–1919), a woman born to a poor farming family in rural Missouri, who became a model of upper-class womanhood to millions of Americans and a prominent leader of reform movements b…
Looks at the Florentine patrician family in the fifteenth century as a social institution, establishing the nature of the household, with a concentration on affective family ties, and tracing relations beyond the household with other members of the patrilineal descent group.
Looks at the Florentine patrician family in the fifteenth century as a social institution, establishing the nature of the household, with a concentration on affective family ties, and tracing relations beyond the household with other members of the patrilineal descent group.